You may get all sorts of things during that time, but you cannot either by the power of heaven or of earth get a new uncle, who has kept his word [page 203] twenty-five years; rather an undertaking considering circumstances.... I remain, my dearest Victoria, your devoted Uncle, Leopold R .
— from The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 3, 1854-1861 by Queen of Great Britain Victoria

It integrates the rocks and, under changed conditions, it disintegrates them.
— from The Breath of Life by John Burroughs

Enmities, however, arose between the two sections, which, after years of repression and useless conciliation, culminated in another civil war.
— from Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch by Mary E. Bradley Lane

They are invariably depicted as rude and irresponsible savages, with semi-negroid features, who had perforce to endure our rigorous and uncertain climate clad in loosely fitting skin garments, and to go about, even in the depth of winter, barefooted and bareheaded, their long tangled locks floating in the wind.
— from Ancient Man in Britain by Donald A. (Donald Alexander) Mackenzie

It must have at its disposal boatmen and carriers for its officials when they travel; it must have men in its service for the construction and maintenance of roads, and under certain circumstances it must exact contributions of foodstuffs for the support of its troops and its staff generally.
— from On the Edge of the Primeval Forest Experiences and Observations of a Doctor in Equatorial Africa by Albert Schweitzer